It occurred however about the same time. The late Benjamin Brush of Stanwich told me this day story and he saw the affair." [X] Chapman was not killed until sometime after June's death. "Sometime (I think about the middle of the war) four armed British vessels chased two American privateers from somewhere in the Sound to one of the Horseneck Harbours. The privateers ran for safety into a narrow harbor called the 'Old Chimney' among
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high rocks. Old Chimney lies between two large rocks, and is not more than large enough to afford shelter to two vessels. The British ships then withdrew and during the night sent to Long Island for assistance. They were joined next morning by two row galleys armed with cannon &c. In the mean time the alarm guns had been fired, and the militia and the Continental troops from Horseneck Meeting House collected near the shore to protect the privateers. The British first sent the galleys near the shore in such a position as to rake the privateers. Finding that this didn't produce the necessary effect the British determined to storm the privateers and their allies. I was a boy and saw the attack. The troops were sheltered by some high rocks behind which they lay in safety. The privateers men took their cannon ashore which was put in position and fired briskly upon the British shipping as they approached As the British came towards the shore, they (the British) fired the first ball, and